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At its plenary meeting on 11 October 2005, the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (French audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) decided to launch a public consultation on the terrestrial broadcasting of local television services in digital mode in the Ile-de-France region. The purpose of this consultation is to discover the expectations and projects of the players in the market, and it is based on Article 31 of the Act of 30 September 1986, as amended, according to which decisions on using radio-electric resources likely to substantially alter the market in question must, before a call for applications...

On 20 September, the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (French audiovisual regulatory authority - CSA) served formal notice on the television channel Canal Plus to keep to the obligations incumbent on it under the legislative and regulatory texts. According to these, the editor of television services must, in the total time devoted annually to the broadcasting of audiovisual works, earmark at least 60% for the broadcasting of European works and 40% for the broadcasting of works originally in the French language. The CSA had noted in the balance sheet of performance of the channel's obligations...

The regional court in Le Havre has fined an Internet user EUR 500 for making music files available to the public on a peer-to-peer network. This was in line with the sentence proposed by the State prosecutor under the “court appearance with prior admission of guilt” procedure - more commonly called the “pleading guilty” procedure - introduced by the Act of 9 March 2004 adapting court procedure to changes in criminality, under whichthe person admits the facts held against him and accepts the sentence(s) proposed by the State prosecutor. In the present case, the accused admitted having offered to...

In a judgment on 7 September 2005, the regional court in Paris ordered the encrypted channel Canal Plus, the production company 2P2L and the journalist Ruth Elkrief to pay EUR 150 000 in damages as compensation for the financial losses suffered by two journalists who had created a new concept for a political programme used, virtually unaltered, by the channel without their authorisation. The concept involves presenting a plausible major crisis in the form of fictional coverage and asking specialists and politicians to comment on how the situation should be dealt with; it was lodged with the French...

Following the realisation that French exports of audiovisual programmes have been stagnating and perhaps even regressing since 2001, Mr Eric Moniot, a senior civil servant at the French Ministry of the Economy, Finances and Industry, was asked by the Director General of the Centre national de la cinématographie (French national film centre - CNC), to draw up proposals for improving the exposure of French programmes on foreign screens. He raised a number of possibilities, including developing the offer of programmes, strengthening companies, and improving the arrangements for public support. The...